The Sheridan County Fair is returning Thursday and will run through Aug. 3. Open class competitions will be available to all residents in the following categories: • Arts and photography • Crafts • Needlework and sewing • Culinary • Floriculture • Vegetables and fruit • School exhibits • Pie contest • Bear dressing contest

In conjunction with the fifth annual Sheridan Artists’ Guild, Et al National Juried Art Exhibition, the Sagebrush Art Center will host a “Plein Air” workshop by Arizona artist and juror, Phil Starke. The workshop will take place in various locations in Sheridan County Monday through Friday. The workshop is designed to help each artist develop their skills in outdoor painting at their own level, focusing on how to see as an artist and not a camera. The workshop will include demonstrations and individual help. The instructor will be painting in oils but pastels and acrylics are welcome as well. Painting will be on location, but students will meet at 9 a.m. at Sagebrush. Prices are $375 for SAGE members and $425 for non-members. For more information or to reserve your spot, call 674-1970 or see artinsheridan.com. The Sagebrush Community Art Center is located at 201 E. Fifth St.

The Sheridan County Museum will host another “Monday at the Museum,” offering free admission, on Monday. As part of the free experience, the Museum will host a brownbag lecture featuring local author, historian and superintendent of Trail End State Historic Site Cynde Georgen at noon. Georgen will present “A Family Vacation in Yellowstone, July 1914.” Travel with the Kendrick Family on their vacation in Yellowstone National Park, based on Rosa-Maye Kendrick’s diary entries and photographs from the Trail End archives. This will be the last Monday at the Museum for 2015. For more information, contact John Woodward, SCM Museum Director at 675-1150 or info@sheridancountyhistory.org. The Sheridan County Museum is located at 850 Sibley Circle.

A conference in Sheridan will bring educators and industry together to learn how to implement Science, Technology, Engineering and Math programs in Wyoming schools. The second annual “Roadmap to STEM” conference is building on last years’ event by welcoming participation from business representatives. Wyoming Contractors Association Executive Director Katie Legerski says industry must be a key stakeholder in building STEM programs in the state, “In an emerging economy in which the need for highly skilled workers is expanding exponentially, it is critically important for the construction industry to partner with educators and the communities in our state to prepare students for those high demand jobs that will be available.” A Share-A-Thon has been added to allow an opportunity for educators and industry representatives to learn about STEM programs being integrated into classrooms, and conference participants will tour several Sheridan businesses. “This year’s Roadmap to STEM conference introduces the strong partnerships that are forming between Wyoming businesses and education,” says Superintendent of Public Instruction Jillian Balow. “One challenge with STEM education is determining how to create learning experiences that mirror real-life and our students’ futures. Partnerships between business and education create opportunities to close this gap and ensure that STEM knowledge translates to meaningful skills.” The 2015 Roadmap to STEM conference will take place Monday through Wednesday at Sheridan College. Information about the conference and registration can be seen at edu.wyoming.gov/communications/news/2015-2/march/stem-2015. For questions, contact Kari Eakins, communications director, at 777-2053 or kari.eakins@wyo.gov.

The Jentel Artist Residency Program will present this month’s residents in an event open to the public. “Jentel Presents” will take place Tuesday from 5:30-7 p.m. at the Sagebrush Community Art Center. This month’s presenters include Craig Wilkins, a creative non-fiction writer; Aliza Cohen, an oil painter; Donna Cooper-Hurt, a conceptual photographer; Cheryl Hochberg, a mixed media painter; Angie Chuang, a non-fiction writer; and Virginia Wagner, an oil painter. “Jentel Presents” is a community outreach program that features visual presentations and readings by the visual artists and writers at the residency. There is no admission charge for “Jentel Presents” and light refreshments are available. For more information, see www.jentelarts.org or call Jentel at 737-2311. The art center is located at 201 E. Fifth St., inside the historic train depot.

Concerts in the Park will return to Kendrick Park Tuesday at 7:30 p.m. Bring your lawn chairs or blankets and enjoy a family friendly outdoor concert in the park. This week’s concert will feature the Hanson Family Band from Eugene, Oregon. Fiddles and guitars, beautiful harmonies, outstanding vocal arrangements and audience participation will highlight the performance. The concert is free and open to all. Food concessions will be available. For more information on the Concerts in the Park series, call David Kuzara at 751-7960.

Sagebrush Community Art Center has begun hosting life drawing sessions on Wednesday evenings from 6-9 p.m. The classes will continue on Wednesdays through Aug. 19. The cost to attend is $10 per person and attendees should bring their own drawing or painting supplies. For more information, call Paulette Kucera at 752-5328 or see artinsheridan.com. The art center is located at 201 E. Fifth St. inside the historic train depot.

The Sagebrush Community Art Center will host the 5th annual Sheridan Artists’ Guild, Et al National Juried Show this August at the historic train depot in Sheridan. The show will be on display Wednesday through Aug. 31, with a reception and awards ceremony on Thursday from 5-7 p.m. The reception is free and open to the community; refreshments will be served. Summer hours for the Sagebrush Art Center are Tuesday through Saturday, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. For more information, call Sagebrush Fine Art Gallery at 674-1970. The art center is located at 201 E. Fifth St.

A summer session of Saturday U, the University of Wyoming’s popular free one-day college education program, will come to Sheridan Aug. 8. The day begins with coffee and pastries at 8:30 a.m. at Spear-O-Wigwam Mountain Campus located approximately 28 miles from Sheridan in the Bighorn Mountains on the northeast edge of Park Reservoir. For directions, see www.sheridan.edu/site/spearowigwam/location. Opening remarks will be offered at 8:50 a.m. Each Saturday U term features lectures from three outstanding UW professors or community college representatives. Following the lectures, all three professors will participate in a final roundtable discussion. Participants may attend one, two, three or all four sessions. No registration is required, and the event is free and open to the public. The roundtable discussion and luncheon will be held outdoors, weather permitting. The program topic descriptions and UW professors lecturing include: • “Early Paleoindian Lifeways in the High Rockies,” with Marcel Kornfeld, Department of Anthropology professor from 9-10 a.m. • “Arts Activity in Wyoming and Its Impact,” with Bruce Richardson, UW-Casper Department of English, senior lecturer, from 10:15-11:15 a.m. • “Bringing together wildlife science, wild lands management and the public since 1953: The UW-NPS Research Center in Grand Teton National Park,” with Harold Bergman, Department of Zoology and Physiology professor, and director of the UW-National Park Service Research Center, from 11:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. For more information about the Sheridan program, see the Saturday U website at www.uwyo.edu/saturdayu.

The Sheridan Artists’ Guild, Et al will host their first ever Summer Art Camp for high school and junior high visual arts students August 10-13 at the Sagebrush Community Art Center. A variety of classes will be available for individual registration, or students can partake in all four classes for a discount. The first class will be photography with Stephen Mullins, August 10-13 from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. daily. The class will teach students the basics of photography and photo editing using their cell phone camera or personal cameras. The fee for the course is $50. The second course is “Express Yourself with Paint!” with instructor Sonja Caywood. This will be offered August 10-11 from 2-4 p.m. The two-day class is designed to challenge and inspire students who believe they’re not artistic to remember the joy of self expression through artistic and imaginative self portraits. The course fee is $40. The third class will be “WIPEOUT Painting” with Micah Trampe on August 12 from 2-5 p.m. For $30, students will learn to combine drawing and painting techniques to create a unique piece of artwork using only their hands as painting tools. The final class will be “Street Art” with Stephen Mullins on August 13 from 2-5 p.m. In this class, students will learn about the contemporary street art scene and it’s recent significance. Students will create a stencil that will be painted onto cardboard and cut out. “Street Art” is also $30. Students may register for all four courses for only $100. To reserve a spot or for more information, call 674-1970. The art center is located at 201 E. Fifth St. inside the historic train depot.

Sagebrush Community Art Center has begun hosting life drawing sessions on Wednesday evenings from 6-9 p.m. The classes will continue on Wednesdays through Aug. 19. The cost to attend is $10 per person and attendees should bring their own drawing or painting supplies. For more information, call Paulette Kucera at 752-5328 or see artinsheridan.com. The art center is located at 201 E. Fifth St. inside the historic train depot.

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